All that, and I forget to even mention the hardware: AMD64 6000+ dual-core (3.1Ghz, I think) SATA3 hard disks 2GB dual-channel RAM (800Mhz) Asus M2NPV-VM (NVidia chipset) Ubuntu Studio 9.04 32-bit edition 32- or 64-bit OS doesn't seem to have any impact as far as these lock-ups are concerned. I've been trying them all. -- Darren Darren Landrum wrote: > For the past 6-8 months, I've been having issues with hard lock-ups on > my computer. Strangely enough, they occur the most, and are predictable, > when I'm playing back longer Flash videos in a browser (watching Leo > Laporte's live TV stream is a guaranteed show-stopper). > > It all started when I got my new Echo MiaMIDI card. At first I thought > it was a bad card, but it ran just fine in another machine for about a > week or so, no issues. Now I'm trying to determine if there is some kind > of driver issue or maybe a driver conflict. > > First off, I'd like to mention that every time I install a new Linux > distro, it's a major chore getting this card working, as it involves > compiling ALSA from source. I'm running the latest Ubuntu Studio at the > moment, and even though they included a driver for the Mia, it didn't > seem to load right, even though modprobe didn't complain, and restarting > the computer caused yet another lock-up. At the moment, I went ahead and > compiled the driver from 1.0.18a sources myself, along with the > firmware, installed that, and even though I've run into a few hiccups (a > lock-up during boot being one), the card is functioning at the moment. > > I'm also skipping the proprietary NVidia driver for a period of time, > just to see if that (or a conflict with it) might be the cause. > > I seem to remember a number of people having some interesting issues > using higher-end cards with PulseAudio. I'm beginning to wonder now if > Pulse might be my primary culprit. If that be the case, since I don't > really want it around anyway, does anyone have a pointer to any > instructions on how it might be removed from Ubuntu Studio 9.04? > > If I do end up removing Pulse, that does leave me with a bit of an > issue, as the Echo drivers don't do any sound mixing from different > applications asking for the driver. So, I'll need a sound daemon of some > sort in order for the computer to continue to be usable. > > Thank you very much for any help. > > Regards, > Darren Landrum > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
